Synonyms of the word

possession

• n. Control or occupancy of something for which one does not necessarily have private property rights.
• n. Something that is owned.
• n. Ownership; taking, holding, keeping something as one's own.
• n. A territory under the rule of another country.
• n. The condition or affliction of being possessed by a demon or other supernatural entity.
• n. (sports) Control of the ball; the opportunity to be on the offensive.
• n. (linguistics) A syntactic relationship between two nouns or nominals that may be used to indicate ownership.
• v. (obsolete) To invest with property.

cacoethes

• n. Compulsion; mania.
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A bad quality or disposition in a disease; a malignant tumour or ulcer.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

district

• n. An administrative division of an area.
• n. An area or region marked by some distinguishing feature.
• n. (Britain) An administrative division of a county without the status of a borough.
• v. (transitive) To divide into administrative or other districts.
• adj. (obsolete) rigorous; stringent; harsh.

dominion

• n. Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
• n. predominance; ascendancy.
• n. (sometimes figuratively) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
• n. (historical) One of the dependencies of the British Empire given self-government and eventually independence,…
• n. (Biblical tradition) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above angels and below thrones.

enchantment

• n. The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.
• n. Something that enchants; a magical spell.

firmness

• n. The state of being firm; strength; permanence; stability; hardness; resolution.

mania

• n. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
• n. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
• n. (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

monomania

• n. Excessive interest or concentration on a singular object or subject.
• n. A pathological obsession with one person, thing or idea.

ownership

• n. The state of having complete legal control of the status of something; possession.
• n. (business) Responsibility for something.

passion

• n. Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate.
• n. Fervor, determination.
• n. An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
• n. sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
• n. (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
• n. A play, musical composition or display meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
• n. (obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition;…
• n. (obsolete) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external…
• n. (obsolete) An innate quality, property, or attribute of a thing.
• n. (obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
• v. (obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
• v. (transitive) To give a passionate character to.

relation

• n. The manner in which two things may be associated.
• n. A member of one's family.
• n. The act of relating a story.
• n. (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
• n. (set theory) Specifically, a set of ordered pairs.
• n. (databases) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.
• n. (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
• n. (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
• n. (usually collocated: sexual relation) The act of intercourse.

resoluteness

• n. The state or characteristic of being resolute; determination or resolution.

resolution

• n. A strong will, determination.
• n. The state of being resolute.
• n. A statement of intent, a vow.
• n. The act of discerning detail.
• n. (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often…
• n. (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
• n. (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; lookup.
• n. (mathematics) The act or process of solving; solution.
• n. A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
• n. (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
• n. (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
• n. (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
• n. The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
• n. (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed…

resolve

• v. (transitive) To find a solution to (a problem).
• v. (transitive) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
• v. (transitive) To solve again.
• v. (intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something.
• v. (transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
• v. To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate;…
• v. To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
• v. (music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
• v. (computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code;…
• v. (rare, transitive) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
• v. (rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
• v. (medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
• v. (obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
• v. (chemistry) To separate racemic compounds into their enantiomers.
• n. Determination, will power.

self-command

• n. The conscious control of one's own behaviour.

self-control

• n. The ability to control one's desires and impulses; willpower.

self-possession

• n. confidence in one's own powers.
• n. calmness and composure, especially when under stress.

self-will

• n. The quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.

spell

• n. (obsolete) Speech, discourse.
• n. Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
• n. A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
• v. (obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
• v. (obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
• v. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
• v. (intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
• v. (transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
• v. (transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
• v. To constitute; to measure.
• v. (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
• v. (transitive) To rest (someone or something).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
• n. A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
• n. (informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
• n. (colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short…
• n. A period of rest; time off.
• n. (colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
• n. (cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
• n. (dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
• n. The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

territory

• n. A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
• n. (Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers…
• n. A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose…
• n. (ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
• n. (sports and games) The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
• n. A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
• n. A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
• n. A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner…
• n. An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.

trance

• n. A dazed or unconscious condition.
• n. (consciousness) A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience;…
• n. (psychology) A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow attention.
• n. (psychology) The previous state induced by hypnosis.
• n. (uncountable, music) Trance music, a genre of electronic dance music.
• n. (obsolete) A tedious journey.
• v. To entrance.
• v. (obsolete) To pass over or across; to traverse.
• v. (obsolete) To pass; to travel.

willpower

• n. The unwavering strength of will to carry out one's wishes.